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Running ads, or tracking and selling visitors political views while also showing ads? I pay for ars technica who promises to turn off tracking and ads if you pa

• harry8 7y ago
  or they could turn off all tracking because they're not evil. Just a thought. I promise to stop punching you in the face if you pay me is not something I think is all that great to be honest. And then I'd have to trust them. But yeah, Ars Technica is not what it used to be since being bought by Conde Nast, right?
  • C4stor 7y ago
    The difference is that you don't have to go on Ars Technica. Whereas you rarely choose to be punched in the face. If the entry to a club was "either be punched in the face, or pay", I bet the majority of patrons would simply pay or go elsewhere. But on the internet, 99% of people either get punched or refuse both options and enter anyway.
    • harry8 7y ago
      Punched in the face, later, at our option or through our incompetence and we kept that secret from you and never got informed consent. The analogy breaks down. You aren't given the option, you wrote the option that websites and their 3rd party providers have to punch you without your knowledge. Stop reading Ars. Does that help you now you wrote that option? Maybe it does. Better is to exercise your option to disrupt evil with uMatrix, pi-hole etc. Prosletyse it. The less money there is in the evil, the less it happens. How we defeated popups, for example.